Vacancy Announcement
Gender Advisor & Stakeholder Coordinator (2 positions) for GIZ Rwanda’s Good Governance Cluster and Women’s Economic Empowerment project
The Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) GmbH is a federally owned international cooperation enterprise for sustainable development with worldwide operations. The GIZ Office in Kigali covers GIZ’s portfolio in Rwanda and Burundi. GIZ Rwanda/Burundi implements projects on behalf of the German Federal Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development, the European Union and other commissioning authorities in the following priority areas: Sustainable Economic Development; Good Governance; Climate, Energy and Sustainable Urban Development; Digital Transformation and Digital Economy; and regional projects in the Great Lakes Region.
With its approach to structural processes and the processing and scaling of good practices of feminist approaches, GIZ RW aims to increase the effectiveness of German development cooperation measures with partners and target groups in Rwanda. The Good Governance Cluster provides new impetus and creates a link between different sectors to generate new knowledge and develop innovations that are designed according to feminist core principles.
The focus here is on the moderation of consultation processes between non-state and state actors and the facilitation of cooperation processes between actors at national, regional and local level. In addition, advice is provided on the topic of gender data and data feminism, which involves the use of gender data for the feminist design of policy content and objectives.
The Gender Advisor & Stakeholder Coordinator will be managing an area of responsibility that forms part of the programme component, will be assisting programme initiatives to provide professional advisory services to and cooperate with a broad range of target groups by maintaining a good flow of communication and information between all involved institutions and counterparts and GIZ.
GIZ Rwanda’s Good Governance Cluster is searching for one candidate for the position of Gender Advisor & Stakeholder Coordinator.
GIZ Rwanda also aims to strengthen the equal participation of women in the Rwandan economy by implementing a project on Women’s Economic Empowerment. GIZ Rwanda is searching for one candidate for the position of Gender Advisor & Stakeholder Coordinator in this context.
Candidate Profile
Location: Kigali
Fixed Term: 01.04.2024-30.04.2026
A. Main Tasks and Responsibilities
1. Ensure coordination and engagement of relevant stakeholders
- Moderation of consultation processes between governmental and civil society actors
- Organising round tables for actors from civil society and government using feminist methods (inclusive and barrier-free, co-creative, participatory, agile, with flat hierarchies, tested on practical examples).
2. Technical advice and research in the field of structural transformation through feminist approaches
- Prepare and conduct studies and analyses on methods and innovative approaches to applying feminist core principles, e.g. mapping feminist actors and identifying and analysing their competencies and conducting a mapping of good practices on feminist approaches and instruments
- Conducting capacity development and technical advice to government partners and CSOs
- Supporting the preparation and implementation of baseline assessments and editing/preparation of recommendation papers etc. by creation of Terms of Reference and the monitoring of activities
3. Other duties/tasks
- Contribute to and exchange with other Gender-related projects of GIZ Rwanda on synergies and joint activities
- Contribute to Knowledge Management of both the global project, sectoral networks, and GIZ Rwanda with regards to gender topics.
- Active participation in GIZ Rwanda’s Gender Working Group
- Active participation in other sectoral internal exchange formats as requested
- Technical support to other cluster projects’ Gender Focal Points
For the position in the Women’s Economic Empowerment project, private sector stakeholders are also addressed by the tasks described under 1. and 2. in addition to government partners and CSOs.
B. Required Qualifications, Competences and Experience
1. Qualifications and professional experience
- Master’s degree in an area that is related to the projects’ objectives, e.g. Gender Studies, Governance, Social Work and Capacity Development, with a focus on a relevant field or bachelor’s degree with extensive experience in comparable positions
- Five years professional experience in implementing projects in the area of gender, feminist development policy and/or (S)GBV.
- Proven experience in the successful engagement of governmental and civil society actors for promoting gender-transformation and human rights
- Strong understanding of social norms transformation, human rights-based and gender transformative approaches
- Track record in the successful establishment of partnerships and networks, including with development partners, government institutions, civil society and/or private sector companies
- Proven ability to design, lead and organize processes, particularly in the context of gender-based violence prevention measures
2. Other knowledge and additional competences
- Fluency in English and Kinyarwanda, both oral and written and good verbal communication skills
- Ability to thrive in a multicultural and multidisciplinary environment
- Proficiency in working with MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint) Outlook and MS teams
- Proactive and results-oriented work ethic
- Team player with the ability to work with minimum supervision
- High level of cultural sensitivity and diplomacy
- Dynamic, flexible, and able to work under pressure
- Comfortable in intercultural teams and engaging with various stakeholders …
Interested candidates should submit their application (motivation letter, updated CV, certificates and references) via our electronic job portal by using the button “apply”; until 28th February 2024 at 4:00 PM. All attachments should be put together in one PDF file not larger than 2 MB.
GIZ is a signatory of the Diversity Charter. Recognition, appreciation and inclusion of diversity in the company are important to us. All employees shall be valued – regardless of gender and gender identity, nationality, ethnic origin, religion or belief, disability, social background, age or sexual orientation. We support equal opportunities and welcome applications from people with disabilities.
This includes the provision of reasonable accommodation, if needed, in order to participate in the job application and interview process and to perform essential job functions. Please let us know, if you have any particular requirements should you be invited for assessment/interview or that you wish us to consider, when considering your application.
Women and persons with disabilities are particularly encouraged to apply.
Only shortlisted candidates will be contacted for test and interview.
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